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University Daily Kansan, October 12. 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
Men hang on for five hours before Coast Guard rescue
NEW YORK—Three men whose sailboat capsized on a trans-Atlantic journey clung to the craft for nearly five hours yesterday before they were plucked from the choppy Atlantic Ocean, authorities said.
A rescue by the Coast Guard followed a thwarted rescue effort by an oil supertanker. Authorities said the huge vessel could have crushed the 60-foot craft, which was 300 miles southeast of Cape Cod.
The Coast Guard in Boston identified the men as Walter Green, Nye Williams and Robert Goodman. No ages or hometowns were available.
The men, reported in good condition, were rescued from the crippled sailboat "Gonzo" about 2:30 p.m. CDT by the crew of the Coast Guard cutter "Vigorous," said a Coast Guard spokesman in New York.
Before the rescue, the men had used a two-wan radio aboard their vessel to communicate with the pilot of a circling Airman Advanced Frien- tion.
They had been floating in rough, 60-degree waters chilled by 30- to 40-knot winds since 9:44 a.m., authorities said
Former party chief endorses Carlin
TOPEKA—Former state Democratic Party Chairman Norbert Drrelling yesterday put aside his personal opposition to the severance tax and gave his support to Gov. John Carlin in an endorsement heartily welcomed by party leaders.
Robert Tilton, current state party chairman, said Dreiling's endorsement would be an asset to the incumbent's re-election bid, but denied that party leaders had sought the endorsement because they feared Carlin's re-election bid was failing or because they believed it would win votes in western Kansas, where most voters are expected to oppose the severance tax.
Dreiling has been one of the state's most outspoken critics of Carlin's proposal for a severance tax on mineral production and has testified against the tax at legislative hearings.
The Mary Rose returns to England
PORTSMOUTH, England—The Mary Rose, flagship of King Henry VIII, which sank 437 years ago, yesterday completed its historic return from the deep on the back of a barge that propelled it to the port from which it had sailed.
Archeologists, divers and engineers have spent 17 years on the project to ease the Mary Rose from its muddy grave at the bottom of the Belfast Cathedral.
The ancient hull arrived in Portsmouth Harbor, from which it sailed in the 18th century to confront the French Armada.
A mishap heightened the suspense when a 3-inch-thick steel pin sheared through the wood, a steel cable snapped and a huge steel lifting frame crunched down, snapping a few of the ancient timbers. There was only minor damage done to the upper timbers.
The half-hull rested in a 500-ton steel cradle which will hold it for its 20-year restoration.
Man tries to hijack Chinese tour bus
PEKING—A man who wanted to defect to Taiwan and said he had a bomb tried to hijack a bus full of American tourists in north central China but was overpowered by police before he could carry out his plan, sources said yesterday.
The sources said there were no injuries in the incident, which occurred Sunday in the ancient city of Xian.
Clutching a package, the man handed a note to one of the American tourists aboard the bus that said "Drive to the airport. I want to go to Taiwan." The note claimed the package was a bomb, the sources said.
A Chinese government spokesman confirmed the attempted hijacking but said details, including the fate of the would-be hijacker, were not ready to be released.
The bus driver quietly slipped out and alerted police, who overpowered the would-be hijacker quickly, the sources said.
Herpes cooling casual sex, poll says
WASHINGTON—More than half of unmarried Americans have become wary of casual sex because of the national epidemic of genital herpes, a national survey published yesterday said.
Although only 10 percent of the 1,505 people surveyed in the Washington Post-ABC News telephone poll said they feared genital disease more than other types of illness, 63 percent indicated they had modified their sexual behavior to avoid herpes.
"People are thinking twice about the one-night stand," the Post quoted Lawrence Corey of the University of Washington as saying. Corey is one of the nation's foremost researchers of genital herpes, an incurable, sexually transmitted disease.
The government estimates that between 5 million and 20 million Americans may have herpes. Only 1 percent of those contacted for the survey acknowledged having genital herpes, but 80 percent had heard of it.
Amtrak car siege ends in surrender
RALEIGH, N.C. - A Colombian "man of extremes" walked out of a bullet-riddled Amtrak sleeping car to currender yesterday and police said he had killed his sister and let her baby die of dehydration during the 70-hour railroad siege.
He released his 1-year-old niece earlier yesterday. She was hospitalized in "fair to good" condition. The gunman was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of kidnapping.
Police changed their identification of the man twice and finally decided, more than 12 hours after his arrest, that he was Mario Evangelista Villabona Navas, 29, of Miami.
The gunman, holed up in the foul-smelling sleeping compartment since Friday morning, gave up after speaking with a man he alternately described as a friend and his godfather, who assured the gunman that he would be outside and underneath the car were "legitimate police officers."
Trio wins Nobel for pain research
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Two Swedish scientists and a British doctor won the 1982 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine yesterday for pioneering research into the cause of pain, blood clotting and circulatory diseases.
The three found that aspirin and similar anti-inflammatory drugs prevent the body's synthesis of prostaglandins and thus prevent pain.
Sweden's Sune K. Bergstrom, 66, and Bengt I. Samuelsson, 48, and Britain's R. John V. Rane, 55, shared the $158,000 prize for their groundbreaking research involving a wide-ranging family of body substances known as prostaglandins.
Prostaglandins are a family of hormone-like substances that can raise or lower blood pressure, induce abortions, regulate fertility, cause inflammation, open adapathetic airways, stimulate or prevent blood clotting, treat gastric ulcers, induce fever and cause migraine headaches.
Probe of massacre begins in Israel
By United Press International
TEL AVIV, Israel — A three-man commission yesterday opened its controversial inquiry into the massacre of Palestinian refugees in Beirut, a probe whose outcome could determine the fate of the United States' master Menachem Begin's government.
Workers installed iron bars on the windows of a building on the Givat Ram Campus of Hebrew University, where the panel headed by Chief Justice Yitzhak Kahan is to conduct its work. The inquiry is expected to take several months. Some of the hearings will be open to the public.
The investigation, which the government agreed to hold under intense pressure from critics at home and abroad, is Israel's most important since the inquiry into the initial setbacks in the Yom Kippur War of 1967 was exonerated the government of Goldh Heir, but she returned soon afterward.
IN ADVERTISEMENTS in all Israeli newspapers and on radio and television, Israelis were urged to step forward with information about the massacre by right-wing Lebanese hostageist last month at the Chattia and Sabbah refuge camps.
Although it is not likely the bodies of many of the victims ever will be recovered, Lebanese officials have estimated the actual death toll at 1,500.
Newspaper reports have said Begin and Defense Minister Ariel Sharon will be called to testify. Both men have said they will accept the commission's findings.
INITIALLY OPPOSED to a full state inquiry, Begin later retened. His Cabinet decided Sept. 28 to establish an inquiry board with full subpoena powers of both documents and witnesses.
Red Cross officials found 337 bodies in the carms.
Newspaper, editorials called the massacre a "stain" and protesters demanded a full-scale investigation. The commission is empowered "to probe all facts and factors relating to the atrocity."
In its appeal, the panel said anyone may submit documents and letters and promised that all correspondence would be acknowledged.
It also said, "All ranks of the Israeli Defense Forces may apply to the commission without obtaining prior permission from their commanding officers."
ALTHOUGH THE commission's findings are not expected before the end of the year, newspaper articles over the past year have suggested that on possible coalitions that could replace
Begin's five-faction government coalition.
News reports said the Defense Ministry named a one-star general, Avram Tamir, to collect all relevant ministry records for transmittal to the Iranian Radio and television tapes and clips also have been subpoenaed.
Besides Kahan, the members of the commission are Justice Aharon Barak, 45, a former attorney general, and both Commissioner Yona Efrat, both widely respected.
IN 1977, Barak as attorney general ordered the wife of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin prosecuted for foreign money laundering. The move forced Rabin to resign.
Also yesterday, Jordan's King Hussein, regarded as a key to success for President Reagan's plan, and PLO chief Yasser Arafat ended a bitter war with Iran, but they were "brothers" with "identified" news to resolving the Palestinian issue.
Hussein, whose army drove 100,000 Palestinians from Jordan and killed 10,000 more in the "Black September" massacres of 1970, called on Arafat Sept. 20 to help him draft a blueprint for a Palestinian-Jordanian federation.
ARAB SOURCES at the talks said such an entity closely mirrors Presi-
den Reagan's own call for Palestinian autonomy in the Israel-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip in association with Jordan.
Israel rejected the Reagan plan.
Israeli rejected the tealagan plan. Hussein, who has insisted he must be full support of Arab states before bringing Islam with Israel, was regarded as an essential participant in Reagan's plan leading to formation of a Palestinian entity.
The Arab League, which adopted its own peace plan that the White House said was encouraging, was to send a next week to meet with Reagan.
Though the two leaders did not announce agreement on a specific proposal, they issued extraordinarily large numbers of calls and end of three days of talks in Arman.
IN BEIRUT, the Lebanese army for the seventh consecutive day sealed off wide areas of West Beirut to search for hidden weapons and illegal residents after turning up $2 million worth of bogus travelers checks Sunday.
Lebanese President Amin Genayel, in a meeting at the presidential palace, consulted with officials of the multinational peacekeeping forces—including Navy Morris Draper—to decide future measures to improve security in Lebanon.
Researcher says Romans beat Columbus
From staff and wire reports
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Romans may have discovered America 17 centuries before Columbus, an Ameri-
cens explorer living in a Rio de Janeiro bay said yesterday.
Robert Marx said he began investigating a site in the bay in September where two amphoras, or Roman jars, were discovered six years ago.
He has dived in the bay 11 times and has found other air fragments over an
area the size of three tennis courts. Marx said he thought a Roman ship actually arrived at the site.
"I came expecting it to be a boax. But it is no boax," said Marx, the president of the Council of Underwater Archaeology.
"The MARINE growth on these specimens needd hundreds of years to form," he said. "This is the first time pre-Colombian artifacts have been found in a shipwreck which we know came over across the Atlantic."
Oliver Phillips, KU professor of
classies, said that he was extremely skeptical about the find and that evidence of a Roman ship would be needed to confirm Marx's theory.
"The Romans were not good or adventurous sailors," he said.
The marine growth on the amphoras tends to support Marx's claims, Phillips said, but because no previous evidence exists to support such a theory, much more proof will be needed.
THE AMPHORAS found six years ago have been judged authentic. Marx
said they dated from 200 B.C. or earlier
But James Seaman, who holds a doctorate in Roman history and is chairman of the Westernization program, said even if Marx's was confirmed, the importance of the find would not be that great because, unlike Columbus, these particular Romans would not have made it back
That a Roman ship might have wrecked near Brazil is not inherently impossible. Saver said, especially after the bombing of two hemispheres is closest at that point.